Democracy and active citizenship
Societal challenges cross borders, and a changing world demands innovation. UiA is committed to interdisciplinary efforts to find sustainable solutions.
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About the area:
In a rapidly changing world, it's important that we understand the fundamental principles that shape and sustain our society. Not least about the forces that threaten and challenge our democracy.
At UiA, we work on how we can understand these forces and further develop the prerequisites and principles for democracy and citizenship through research, dialogue and social engagement.
Research groups
- Art and conflict
- Art and social relations
- Art and young people
- Childhood and society
- Claimed Pasts: Critical knowledge and Heritage Production
- Communications and system security
- Dialogical practices
- Ethics and philosophy
- European integration and transnational governance
- Future learning lab
- Governance and leadership in the public sector
- Health, Behavior, Diversity, and Social Inclusion
- Human-Centered AI
- Institutional ethnography
- Media and communication studies
- Mobility, culture and gender
- Multilingualism in Society and Education
- Professions and professionals in cooperation
- Religion, kindergarten and school
- Religious minorities and religious diversity
- Sensus communis
- Social simulation
- Social welfare and welfare services
- Society, Space, Psychosocial Health
- Texts, interpretations, cultures
- Urban and regional planning
How we work with the area
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UiA stands together for diversity Aug. 24, 2026 12:56 PM
Updated 28 August: The Pride parade and Rainbow Square event in Kristiansand on 29 August have been cancelled due to the passing of His Majesty the King. Skeive Sørlandsdager instead invites people to gather at Kilden Concert Hall from 15:00.
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New research forum to promote LGBTQ+ research at UiA Aug. 18, 2026 12:57 PM
Researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and the humanities are now coming together under one roof. Through the new research forum QiA – Queer Research Agder, the University of Agder (UiA) aims to strengthen and raise the profile of queer research in the region.
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New leadership wants to build bridges between the Centre for Gender and Equality and UiA researchers Aug. 14, 2026 10:12 AM
Just before the summer, Lee Michael Shults officially took up his post as the new director. Together with his deputy, Adriana Ruiz, he aims to forge closer links between the field of gender equality and research, both regionally and nationally.
